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The three kingdomes case: or, Their sad calamities, together with their causes and cure. Laid down in a sermon preached at a publique fast at Kingston upon Hull. With some very remarkable passages of providence worthy of generall observation. /
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Shawe, John, 1608-1672.
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Wing S3030; Thomason E330_1; ESTC R200707
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together what prophane swearing cursing damming ramming banning against the third so that many men tolerably civill seven yeers agoe cannot now speak except they swear I think verily God hath given them over to that in wrath which they at first prided themselves in for the fourth Commandement we need no books of sports to be read to cry it down amongst many it 's almost forgot some denying it in opinion others in practice for the fifth how doe the vilest people if stronger insult over the ancient rifle his house so that he whose face they durst scarce the other day look at cannot say his house lands goods wife children c. are his own Isa 3. 5. Lam. 4. 5. 5. 8. but drag him forth of his house bare though gray headed and bare-foot and use him villanously as Phocas did to that good Emperour Mauritius for murder whordome and stealing breaches of the sixth seventh and eighth Commandements which usually goe together how rarely are these punished nay made but a jest plundering smoaking c. lying is grown a trade in word writing print c. For the Gospel how do men jeer at it the gospellers gospel lives faith c. nay how do some openly cast off the old Testament much of the new both in doctrine and practice and should we not nay can we but lay these things to heart that are practised in these plundering times if our father husband wife c. vvas struck down vve would mourn and is not God dearer to us then a thousand friends shall vve not lay it to heart vvhen men grow vvorse then Devils James 2. 19. neither beleeve nor tremble Thirdly vvhen the enemy gets a petty victory Gods name is blasphemed therefore should vve be affected and afflicted he cannot be content to strip plunder beat the poor Saint whom he blasphemes Round-head but he must rail on and revile his God where is your God now what is become of your Fasting Conventicles long prayers praying by the spirit alas this kils a Davids heart troubles old Eli and his daughter more then other crosses 1 Sam. 4. 18 19 21. Psal 74. 18 19. 79. 10 11. so Moses Exod. 32. 11. Numb 14. 16. so Psal 3. 2. 10. 13. 42. 3. Reas 2. In regard of our Brethren and Country for first many are banished plundered wounded slain their houses burned themselves outwardly undone that are very dear to God whose lives are precious Lam. 4. 2. blood precious Psal 72. 14. death precious Psal 116. 15. Gods servants friends children heirs Christs fellows fellow servants fellow sufferers fellow conquerors Rom. 8. fellow judges 1 Cor 6. 2. fellow citizens with the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 8. 17. nay Christs spouses partakers of divine promises divine nature divine communicable priviledges of Christ 2 Pet. 1. 4. and shall we not lay this to heart Secondly they are neer to us of the same house with us for all Gods Church is but one house only severall Chambers and Parlours 1 Pet. 4. 17. nay members of same body under same head 1 Cor. 12. 12 26. and when these suffer deeply shall not we mourn then are we but glassie eyes and wooden legs no living members shall Christ be sensible who is the head Acts 9. 4 5. Matth. 25. 42 43. and not your fellow-members 2. Cor. 11. 29. 1. John 2. 9 10. Thirdly in regard of our Country can we see our native Country spoiled torn in pieces by its own sons and not mourn see Neh. 2. 3. Psal 107. 34. Joel 2. 3. how hath this darling soyl and Kingdom been harassed and over-run by the Saxons Anno 447. after Christ whom King Vortiger sent for to help him against the Picts and Scots who came over hither under the conduct of Hengistus and Horsus with about 9000. men at first but after they had conquered the enemy they conquered King Vortiger himself slew his Nobles got first a Castle in Kent Thong Castle then a County then most part of our Kingdome and made seven Kingdoms of it plundered banished and spoiled the Brittains After came in the Danes fetcht in by one of our Nobility Beorne Bockard as some say by occasion of one Lothbroke under the conduct of two Danish Captains Hunga and Hubba upon the Danes comming into England they slew Osbert King of Northumberland and so revenged the cause of Bockard after shot King Edmond to death with arrows having bound him to a Tree therein revenging the death of one Lothbroke slain by one Beric King Edmonds falconer These Danes again plundered the poor Inhabitants of this Land kept them under as slaves so as they could not drink but a Dane would cut an English-mans throat hence were they fain to get one to pledge them when they drank to save their throats from being cut After this came in the Normans from Normandy in France in the dayes of King Harold brought hither by William Duke of Normandy after called William the Conquerer landed neer Hastings in Sussex September 28. 1066. Duke William sunk all his ships that so his men might resolve to fight for fly they could not fought with Harold October 14. in the yeer of Christ 1066. in which battle were slain about 68000. men William proved the Conquerer got the Crown the poor Inhabitants were again plundered their lands places estates were given to the French many fled to Scotland to King Malcolme there c. but yet these were plunderings from forraign Nations but now are we tearing out our own bowels in civil wars and broils one with another it 's true also we have had terrible civill warres in England before this in the Barons war in the divisions twixt the houses of Lancaster and York but still ours are worse when those wars were at hottest it 's Chronicled for a strange wonder that in the Reign of Edward the fourth there were nine severall battels fought in that civil war and yet he reigned I think almost 23. yeers But I can tell you of nine battles in half a yeer in King Charles his time nay three times nine battles in three yeers of his Reign and the Lord knows how many more yet may be In every one of our late Soveraigns Reigns there hath been some remarkable trouble or danger to this Laud burning in Queen Maries dayes a Spanish Navy in 88 in Queen Elizabeths days a hellish Powder-plot in 1605. in King Iames his days but these troubles in King Charles his days exceed all the rest in Queen Maries days some three hundred were burnt in our days above thrice three thousand slain alas how is our Country lately like the Garden of God now become a desolute Wildernesse Joel 2. 3. that Land that Gregory after called the great at Rome called Angel-land a Land of Angels which Spain called the fortunate Island how sits she like a widow alas one comes from the Army and brings news like his 1 Sam. 4. 17. there hath been a great slaughter and thy sons